eli babtholomew



ELI BARIIIOLOMEW, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Letters Potent No. 85,355, dated December 29, 1868.

IIVIPROVED WASHING AND WRINGING-MACHINE The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom it imay concern Be it known that I, ELI BnRrHoLoMnw, ciCleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and. State of Ohio, have inventeda certain new and useful Machine for Washing, lVringing, and BleachingClothes or Cloths, combining a reservoir and laundry-table, with aclothesrepository, which is so constructed and operated as to furnishrunning water through the clothes, and avoid the usual necessity ofhandling the goods during such process and Ido hereby declare that thefollowing is afull and complete description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan view.

Figure 2 isa vertical section.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts iii the 'views The natureof my invention consists in the combination of' a circular vessel forthe reception of the goods to be cleaned, and cleansing-materials, withthe bottom of the vessel so bridged as to form a filter over a drain,below the articles to be cleansed, with pipes and stopeocks so insertedes to supply and discharge water and solutions necessary to facilitatethe operations, and made use of to produce the result, and a removablecylinder, rotating above the clothes in the circular trough.

I construct a wheel to correspond with the width of the bridge, which isrolled by any suitable power over thebridge, and upon the goods placedthereon, to perform the cleansing work required.

By an inside partition, I form a supply-reservoir in the centre of themachine, and by a separable cover, 'which is removed while working themachine, and again replaced, I form a table and clothes-repositorywithin.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.4

I construct my receptacle for the goods and cleansing-material of acircular form,'with suitable legs, B, and division C, with stop-cocks DE, for thc reception anddischarge of water from hydrants, or otherwise,thus forming an inner basin and reservoir, E, leaving a surroundingtrough, G, in the bottom of which I place a bridge, H, so constructed asto form a filter over a drain, I, which is provided with a stop-cock, J,for the purpose of discharging turbid waste water and solutions.

I construct a'hollow wheel, K, the length oi' which will nearly ill thewidth of the trough G, with a handie, Z, and shaft L, connected with anupright revolving post, M. The surface of the wheel may be corrugated,or otherwise, the inside of which is made to contain water, or anequivalent, in one or more divisions, that the weight of the wheel maybe increased or diminished without expense, except filling anddischarging, by means of a plug, N, thereby forming au empty cask fortransportation and light work, or any required weight for heavy labor.

I make the diameter of the wheel such, that when placed in the trough G,the surface will clear the rails of the bridge H, when the shaft andhandle rest upon Y the rims of the trough G, that line fabrics may notreceive too great friction when the machine is in operation.

I construct a cover, which is titte-d to the top of the machine, therebycombining a laundry-table and clothes-repository when not otherwise inuse.

To operate my machine, I lill the reservoir F with cold or hot water, asmay be required, or attach hydrant-pipes to stop-cock D for the supply.

I place the goods to be cleansed upon the bridge H, in suitablequant-ities to receive the weight of the wheel K from the reservoir, orotherwise. I lill the trough G with a suitable quantity of water, addingsoap or alkalies, may be required. I then' till the wheel K with water,or an equivalent, at the plug N, and place it in the trough, upon thegoods, and attach the shaft L to the revolving post M. I then rollthe'wheel over the go'rds, and change the water, as maybe required,

to economizc expense of solutions and facilitate the work, by supplyingclean waterfroin the reservoir stopcock E, and discharging turbid waterat stop-cock J, until the articles are cleansed. I then lclose the.supply D, and open the discharge-cock J, and by the same operation ofthe wheel as for washing I press the water from the clothes, through thebridge H and drain I, out of the waste-'cock J, and the articles arewashed and wrung out by the operation, which the heavy weight of thewheel, in rolling over them, will accomplish in a remarkably short time.I then apply any preferred bleaching-solution to white goods, and stirthem with the wheel, in the-saine manner for washing, until wellsaturated, when clean water may be run through them in a similar manneras for washing, when they are again wrung out in the same mannerI asbefore. They may then be taken from the machine, thoroughly washed,bleached, and wrong out, not having been moved by the hands from thetime theywere placed in the machine until they were taken from it. In auordinary machine, of forty-four inches diameter, I putin at one time auordinary family-washing of white goods,l and by avoiding the repeatedhandling of the goods by hand, as is usually done, and the facilitiesi`or changing waters, I occupy but a small. portion of the timegenerally applied to accomplish a similar' work..

What I claim as my invention, andidesire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. The interior chamber Il, communicating with the exterior troughorcha-mber G, which is furnished with the ii.lteri1igbridge II, and withthc water-receptacle or drain I beneath it, in combination with therotating cylinder K, connected by one end of its shait to a revolvingpost, all as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a machine, as claimed above, making the revolving cylinderremovable, together with the revolv ing post, so as to permit the coverto be placed over the machine when not in use, as and for the purposesset forth.

ELI BARTHOLOMEW. Witnesses:

Gno. W. Trnrrrs, Geo. Hnsrnn.-

